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The Labor enquirer., 1887-02-12
DEMOCRACY Us. IMPERIALISM
Respectfully Referred to His High
ness tho g. ". ".
n ". P.

In 1884 7. V. IPowderly saw in the
Connelsville, Pen hsvlvania, coal mines
certain scenes which he described as
follows: J..
"At one Of the ovens I saw woman
hs,f-naked drawing the hot coke from
the chamber. She had no covering on
her head. and very little on her person.
Her appearance was that of one whose
spirit had been broken by hardship and
hard work. Her attire consisted of a
coarse chemise and pair of cowhide
boots. In q freight car close by stood
another woman forking the coke as it
came to the car Forking is the term
used to indicate the disposition of the
coke when 1t Is thrown into the car.
The person who does the forking throws
the coal to either end of the car, as it is
wheeled in. The woman stood in the
doorway, and was dressed in q rough,
loose fitting outef garment and an apron.
Her person from the waist up was ex-
posed. When she stopped over to
handle the coke, she caught her hair
between her teeth, In order to keep it
out Of her way. Her feet were encased
In a pair Of heavy shoes. and her legs
were exposed ffom the knees down.
Her babe, which she brought TO the
works with her, lav in front Of the car.
with scarcely any covering except the
shadow of vheelbarrow, which was
turned up In order to protect the child
from the rays of the sun. Many more
such cases met my view. and some Of
them were even worse than this"
The wages Of these women / under
stand was 90 cents q day. That amounts
to $3.50 q year. II would take the total
earnings Of twenty.eight of them to
equal 5000 q Vi bar. And il all of these
miserable American women belonged
to the X. of Il and paid up their dues
regularly 1t would take over 1000 OF
them TO provide the necessary luxuries
for man Of culture, executive ability
and taste. AsrARorH.
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|WhIak nsland' saiest Mor-
49, and crltlo Ab|out
u causs q Rss1pl
Worls don their Leadsr 70 The
/ ~Caltarsdc Glasses Of
I the World.
Jsls Rlskin vsisss The Cause sf the
Poor n Brisf bat Brilliant
rsrisas.

All social evils and rslieipus szzprl
arise out cf the pillage u ~ Iahbese "
the idler The idltr lsavine ~ eily
enoneh u live on (and even III niSsr.
ablv) and|akins I'll the rest of ~ pro
ducs Of BIZ work 70 spsnd in lie own
luxury. Of in the toys with which he bs.
guiles bic idlsnsa-
And this u done. and has from time
immsmorial been done. in Ill so-called
civilissd. bot in reality corrupted, couh-
tries.-ant by the landlords ;ythsn, un-
der their directions. by the three chief
so~ealled eentlemanly -profssuons." Of
soldier, lawyer and priest and, lastly,
byf the merchant and usarsr. The
landlord plllagss by direct isrcs, ssising
the land, and saying to the Iaborsr.
"You shall not live on this earth. bnt'
shsll hsfs die. unless YOU give me III
the fruit of your labor. but your bare
living -" the soldier pillaaes by per-
suadins the peasantry to fight, and then
getting himself paid for skill in leading
them to death the lawyer pillages
BY prolonglng their personal quarrels
with marketable ingenuity and the
priest BY selling the gospel. and getting
paid for theatrical displays of 1T. All
this has to cease. inevitably add totally.
Peace. Justice and the Word Of God
must be- GIVEN to the people. not SOLD.
JOHN RusKIN.
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The Pinkerton ''Plussers" and
What The People Think
Of Them.
Is claw and Order" Authorized
In America to Shoot Down
Women anC Childreni
How Long Would the Americans Of
1879 Have Suffered Such In.
famIes to Existi

II was only last year that these things
occurred: procession Of working girls
on strike dubbed bv policemen Q poor
old woman shot In the back and killed
by the Pinkertons and little boy shot
dead with his school books under his
arm.
And now this year O gang Of the same
roughs fire from train into an Assem-.
bly, Of the people and kill another
American citizen /; and another crowd
Of the same rufiians kill another school.
boy in New Jersey.
What gallant Americans we're those
who did such deeds /
But I, woman, would rather be that
old woman dead than be the villain who
murdered her would rather be the
mother Of either Of those little school
boys when they we're found innocent,
unodsnding. cold, the target Of cruel
shots. than to be the knave, the wicked
fool. the brutal coward. the corrupt ras-
cal who for IS q dav hired himself out
as butcher Of women and babes.
ANNA H. +. HASKELL.
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Chrun1cle 1d1torial, sams dats.
The dSath II Nm. Georsiana Bruoi
Kirby u lants Crus ends : rsmarksbIs
career. Nm. Kirby ftom her sirlhood
IN England NJ interested In social rs-
Forms. When shs LEFT Canada for New
EnalaAd shs naturally driitsd into asso-
cistion with the Transcendentalists. and
shs h4s LEFT one Of the bsst pictures Of
liib at Brook Farm. She also served -
aaslstdnt to the matron Of Sing Sing
prison at . time when prison reform was
In It. infancy. Like Mrs. Stowe, abe
saw what slavery was by living -
goveriess in the family Of . Louisiana
planter. and she wss associated with
the an ti-slavery movement long before
It became . great national question.
She died at an advanced ~. after life
full of unseffish work for the good Of
othere, 4
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Mrs. Georgiana Bruce Kirby was borh
IN Bristol, England, December, 1878.
8 he descended on her mothers sid ;
from the celebrated Prince Of Condo
Louis Joseph). She left England for
Canada when she was about 16, AMI
subsequently went to Boston, where sh p
become interested in the Brook Farm
(Socialistic) experiment and went there p
To finish her education. At Brook Farm
she became acquaidted with many men
and woman who are now or were we'll
known in the litery world. such as Mar
garet Fuller. George Ripley, Hawthorn b,
Emerson, George William Curtis and
Charles A. Dana, now editor Of the Ne "
York Sun.
Mrs. E. w. Farnham being appointed
by Silas Wright matron of Sing Sing
prison, she selected Mrs. Kirby, then
Miss Bruce, as one CT her assistants and
under their efficient management new
system of prison discipline was int rp-
duced which received great opposition
from the churches, but Governor Wright
and afterward Governor Young sas-
tanned Mrs. Farnham in her efforts, q nj
their management proved q great stc.
cess end one which made q revolution
in prison discipline that vi as followe d
BY nearly all the New England states.
After leaving Sing Sing Miss Bruce went
east and engaged ss teacher in. Mis-.
souri,, but her strong anti-slavery opin'
IONS becoming known she thought the
wisest course was to leave, and finally
went back to New York.
In 1850 Miss Bruce started for Cslifor.
MIA. Horace Greeley loaned her the
money to come here with. She re-
turned 1t to him after she had earneh q ii
keeping house for J. B. Hill, in the Pa
jaro valley. Mr.. Hill had been in charge
of the farming operations at B1 1ook
Farm. Mr. Greeley sent Mlss Bruce {
receipt that, as matter Of curiosity. il
kept in the family at Santa Crus. He
wrote that he did not expect the return
of the money. but that it came at an op
portune moment, Is there was q yduns
man whom he wanted TO assist, and hs
loaned it to him to go west" Mr.
Greeley. wien in Californis, stated tina
the young man was taking . longer tim
" return the loan than Miss Bruce. HI
had not q yet made success Of hi
western trip.
Mn. Kirby WAS . woman who took I
deep and earnest interest in oil aues
lions that she believed we're for tn
benefit Of humanity. Her mind an
character were keenlv analytical. Sh
despised Ill sham and insincerity. Sh'
had the rare faculty Of entering into tn
thoughs Of others with an intuitiyS pei
ception. and Of sharing their sorrow
through her sfeat-heartsd sympsthv
Ali up and dewn this coast are meh an
women who, when they hear Of he
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An american oirl,s Ideas.

As my parents were favorableto our
union, it was an affair that concerned no
more or less than two persons. But a
mob Of newspaper men, respectable roues
many of them. howled and raved when
our proposed marriage became known.
He'd committed every crime denomi.
mated In our criminal code these "chiv.
alrous gallant American gentlemen"
could not have, villified and denounced
me more than they did. Had I been
some obscure. foreign girl" not q word
" would have been said in condemnation
OF the marriage. But an American cir
from respectable ancestry and stand
ing" following the voice of her heart
which alone I hold to be moral-instead
OF the sound Of dollars "That's unpre
cedented, scandalous-the girl must be
sillvl Must have read trash novels"
Had married an old, invalid debau
che with great riches these moral" gen
tlemen who assail me now would have
lRuded me the skies, and many of my
Christian sisters and brethren would
have said to their sons and daughters
VERY commendablel A very sensibl,
sirlp And those who knew me per
sonally: II have always thought he
30 sweetp
prefer the censure Of these moral
people-who, it seems. cannot compre
bend love made doubly strong by I
similarity Of mental tastes and pursuits
Is ours is-to their approval. i On
equally proud Of the friends that / hav'
made-persons who can understand
pure and unselfish love.
NINA VAN ZANDr.
CHICAGO, Jan. n. <.
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Freedom.


They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak
They arc slaves who will not choose
Hatred, scoffins. and abuse,
Rather than in silence shrink
From the truth they needs must think
They are slaves who dare not be
In the right With two or three.
Il true freedom but TO break
Fetters for ohr own dear cake,
And, with leathern hearts, forget
That No owe mankind debit
No true freedom 10 10 share
All the chai&s our brothers wear,
And with heart and hand 70 be
Earnest 70 make others free.
JAxn RussELL LOWELL.
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LET sooroH.ns BLUSH.
rA!.r Country Has sAsr,s WI.
seixes Babies fer
Rent.

Some Of the aristocratic club men u
New York are immensely amused at the
seisinR of child by the sheriff Of In.
verness. Scotland, at the instance Of
Lord Mac Donald for rent due. Said
one Of the young dudes Of the Seventh
regiment. THAT is the proper answer to
the N D rent campaign. Seize the beg.
Qars' brats and the rent comes up.
Those that can paw and won't pay
should be made to pay. Let them cut
down their beer bills and pay their
rent. It must have been amusing to
have seen how the new tactics oper-
ated.T
The babes father was sick and vet
Is. in Inverness prison. The mother
was without food or fire in her house.
And this is her statement detailing the
occurrence. We trust that our readers
will Dee the "humor" Of the situation.
She says: "When he was entering
the house the sheriff rudelv pushed me
in before him. Ny baby, who is two
months old. was sleeping in the cradle
near the fireside. The officer, when
he went towards the fire. said. II
will poind the baby and the CRADLE He
turned down the blanket that covered
thei nfants face, and said: Is 1t q boy
or girlr and replied that it was q
lad. really thought ct the time the
officer was in fun. knew that the cat
tie and the sheep could be poipded. but
I had not the remotest idea that the
child could. Several people have
spoken to me about the poinding and
asked me if it were true. Icannot read,
and tits only to-day that have learned
from the inventory of articles poinded
that my childis really entered as Cd.
The conduct Of the officer was savage,
but I suppose that even if they remove
our children wemust remain quiet"
To laugh at mothers tears, to be
amused at the tearing from mothers
breast of aninfant Of two months, to
exult at using the most sacred emotions
of humanity as a whip to Nextort the last
penny for rent, to see hrmor in valuing
half-starved child at sixpence.-this
| it is to be a cultured American" a
"blue-blood," one of the "better.classes. !"
The prison for babes in Scotland. the
bullet of the Pinkerton for them in
Americal Cowards that we are, can
We do nothing but, as the mother said
with helpless breaking heart, can We d.
nothing but remain quiet?" H.
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Comrades, 1t 10 t4s spirit of selHshnsss
that we must Kill oht Of the American
capitalist aristocrsfv; and this spirit
psrvades every department Of their sys-
tenn. Their Pinferton bullIes and
bravos kill the body, their factory vam-
pires plunder even the bones Of chill
dren Of their 6esh Ind drive them starv-
ing to the looms; their social institu-
tons make mental slaves and moral
lepers Of tens Of thousa ands. And the
Issue ID plainly marked; every day
brings new evidences Of the fact; the
child Of the aristocist is Q petted and
protected prince the Offspring Of the
poor man beeeart brat, q Malthusian
atom, blade Of uisless grass, marked
out for ploughlng dnder: No da7 passes
without our being compelled to motto Q
some such infsmy hs the following:
Market street ID that city divides
plebean from patrician San Francisco.
On the north side s Van Ness avenue.
Mob Hill and the high schools; on the
the south are factories and tenements.
and the rookeries used to educate In
primary classes tho children Of the poor.
Diphtheria Is now raging there and
are DYING by the score. and the
capitalist board Of education thereupon
makes these sapie1t aud merciful sug-
gestions: Let the schools north Of Mar
ket street be closed until the epi-
demic abates; this will preserve the
OF the better classes from con-
tact with the poor But let the schools
On the south Of Market street remain
open; the class Of children who there
attend will be subject to contagion at
school as well as On the street. 4
One hundred wears ago our ancestors
Ought to resist a lax upon their tea.
What will their descendants do now
when not only our labor and property
but the lives Of our children are levied
Upon BY the spirits Of selfish greed?
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Our tses .Arissocracy.

The workman on the WelIand cana al
complain Of q regulation which forbids
them using the lock houses to warm
themselves inI There appears 70 DO no
reason for their not using tae empty
houses for shelter, except the desire oi
their masters that the soilers shall be as
DOOR and as miserable as possible. "The
more miserable the more humble; the
more humble the cheaper" was the way
that a Philadelphia artist ocrat put it the
other day.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-02-12

It takes u . total living Of 5000
workers to pav the interest and divi-
dends on watefed stocks in this country.
The Anarchist who get 500 to $1,000
per day of these fraudulent dividends
are preaching economy to the workers
who 60 to bed sapperless. Down with
the (real) Anarchists. ~
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q GREAT LOSS.
The Dsssh Of comrade asorgisna
Kirby Of Santa Q ruz,
I|/lII California.

San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. q.
SANTA CRUZ, Jan. 27.-vMrs. Georgisna
Bruce Kirby, wife of r. C. Kirby, died
to-day after a lingering illness. She
was aged SO years. She came to thi3
city in early days. and was prominently
identified with nearly every NpubliS
movement and was we'll known in liter
ary cirdes. X |
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The Workingmen.

Two heads are better than one / hear
This must have been written in fun
For If all had heads like some Of you
No head would be better than one. v
ANNA HASKELL. 4
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SATURDAY. lsLE sH Z 81

|lsatb, win remember hse = one whs
|ailsd khsm in time Y tso6bls. 81
firmly believed thSa thess1s no death
10 the |seul- that deatk \ ONLY : birth
Into Z heV expeElsaee, y,
HG|bosk. y xsaze y peeisnos." ." was
|ia1usd only ~ ace ~ 1tAe rua.ama
ltaie = = N ~ tlorv .
Der ~ lilbs - w NJ dspar- :
ture fSr Califbrnia
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The celebrated stiff Hats from the
Cooperative Hat company jast received
ct Csyton's,
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II seems to mo that The American
people ought unanimously to decree the
downfall Of q system that permits the
mental. moral physical murder Of little
children that they ought not to sub
scribe for or support In any manner the
journalism that suppresses the news Oh
the infamies daily; perpetrated upon
helpless babes that thev ought to weed
out Of existence the horde Of plunderers
who fatten upon the labor OF others |;
that they ought to support with their
voices, their purses and their lives that
movement and those men and journals
who are now In the van Of the battle
making anew the hsht for the practica
possession Of ths dearest rights Of Amer
leans, the rights to life. liberty and hap
piness.
We can never publish too often that
picture Of the condition Of the children
at hell's Mills In Baltic, Connecticut.
1t Is but typical OF their late In q nun
dred other localities:
"In tho spooling room where the children
are ohey work BY the side) they get 20 cents
per side. Some children can run one side
per week, Others can run four sides accord
ing TO ago and size. The ages OF these chill
dren range from SIX 10 FOURTEEN years
Sometimes IL takes three Of these six-year
old children to run . side which would
make their wages about TWENTY CENTS 4
WEEK. Could you stand on ths
bridge between the mill and the tenemepel
at winter, at half.past Ave In the mornina
and see the nocks Of little old men ane
women with tattered coats and shawls' ano
toes peeplns out Of dIlapldated shoss-soms
perhaps munchlns piece Of broad with 'arc
spread on IL some with molasses on bread.
all blue and plnchsd and shIvsrins with cold
you would indeed pity those roor llssie ua
iortunatsA and suss the Systsm that grind.
their young lives out on ths altas OF greco
and avSrioss"
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The poor boy who was shot dead in
Hoboken last week BY one Of the mur.
derous gang known as Pinkerton's Pre-
ventive Patrol. has not died In vain.
We rejoice 10 see that not only have the
press Of the country vigorously de
nounced the villains, but the New Jer-
sey house ofassemblv has already on
Its files no less than four bills designed
to abolish such thugism. As for the
press, even the New York Tribune,
"rat" raper and all. though 1t be, feels
compelled to protect sRa,nst the
slaughter Of the innocents, and says:
This kind Of recklessness on the
part OF policemen Is criminal. 1t is get
ting far too frequent. Nobody Knows
when some fool whom the law entrusts
with pistol Is going to blow au inof-
fenslve citizens brains out. Policemen
who have so little sense should be pun
ished with q severity which will teach
we'll the lesson that firearms must never
be resorted TO except when an officers
very life Is In danger or when there Is
no possibility Of killing other people.
1t Is far better that picayuae rogue
who pliers a watch or an overcoat
should escape than for half hundred
people TO run the risk Of being X lied.
The pinkerton case In Jersey CITY was
inexcusable. The detectives were there
to guard the coal docks against the
strikers. A lot OF urchins began to pelt
the officers with stones. Instead Of
capturing tho boys. four detectives fred
a, them. The mischief-nakers escaped.
but lad who had been standing near
was ahot through the head. The respon.
sibility for this crime rests largely upon
ths detective agency. Such 'persons
have no business to be employed In q
task requiring the delicacv, watchfulness
and firmness Of serious and conscientious
men. However difficult II may be to
secure proper men as the guardians OF
the public peace, II must be done, and
those whose duty II Is to provide officers
must be held to account for the murder
GUS behavior Of the persons to whom
thew give such dangerous power"
Bent County register., 1887-04-02
a Bill

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION OF Al
TIcLE 2, CHAPTER 100, OF THE
GENERAL STATUTES oFTHE STATE
OF COLORADO PERTAINING 10
TOWNS AND CITIES.
Be it enacted by the General A
scmbly of the State OF Colorado 4
SEC l. That section seven (7) Z
article two icy, in chapter one hun
red and nine (i09) of the Gener,
Statutes, State of Colorado; approve
April 4, 1877; pertaining to towil
and cities, be amended so rs 10 rea
as follows, to-Mit: Whenever a,
territory shall be laid ont or su
veyed as an addition to any city I,
town organized under this act, su.
territory shall, upon the filing Of I'll
map or plat thereof, in the of,;ce I,
the county clerk and recorlar of Il
county in which said territory mi.
be situated, and another such ms
or plat with the clerk or recorder (
the city or town to which it is des
ed TO annex such territory, become
part of sai,l city or town, and be Il
cluded within the limits and iur!
dic,ion thereof;
PROVIDED, That no map or Plat
such addition shall be filed Il
record with said clerk and record,.
until the same has been, by t.
owner or owners of two-thirds {
of the area of such contemplated a
dition, submitted. to the city count
or board of trustees of said city Y
town, and approved by three fourt
(a) of the members elected theret
and no map or plat of such additi,
shall be approved by said council
trustees, unless the proposed stree
and alleys therein are IN conformi
as to courses and angles with I.
streets and alleys of adjoining xl'
tons of said city or town, nor mi.
such map or plat shall show the te
ography of such territory as to blui
streams, bitches and ravines. nj
until all taxes then assessed again.
such territory arc paid; and if y
said territory shall have previous
been sold for taxes aud not redee,,
ed therefrom, the owner OF owlt
thereof shall first redeem tho s.
land from such tax sale; Provid,a
The tax deed has not issued theret
This bill has just pasted bts
Houses. Will become law as sol
as signed by the rorcanor.
G. NJ. Wcopwoisra.
Bent County register., 1887-04-02
Trip to Lanaac.

Last Thursday night representa-
tive of the Democrat boarded the
1hunderbolt for the neighboring
town of Lamar for the purpose of
transacting some important business
and "seeing the sights" Arriving
there we were escorted to the hall in
which was being held the regular
semi-monthly meeting of the Lotos
Club. We found there Dr. L, Perry
Rice, one of Lamar's promising
physicians, and also DR.. Robbie
Burns, of Denver, who visited this
place last January. The party was
a very pleasant affair. there being
present some forty couples of the
elite of the thriving town.
Friday morning we were taken in
tow by DR.. Burns and the popular
postmaster, Mr.. j.. w. Decker, and
shown around the city. Every per.
some errand, or had some object in
view. There are no oilers there.
Some twelve or more teams were
busily engaged in hauling dirt from
different excavations for new build
ings and depositing some upon the
principal bnsiness street. Now
buildings are going up in all direc-
lions, and it treminded us of Lead
vile and other booming mountain
towns in '7s, 10 and so. The sound
of the hammer and saw may be
heard way into the night. Heavy
and numerous transactions in real
estate are hourly occurrences-a
man has only to offer piece of
property for sale to find buyer, SO
anxious are the new comers to be-
come possessed of town lots aud
agricultural lands.
Las Animas business men, we sur.
mise, would profit by visit to
Lamar and see how people do in
that town to increase their trade.
Lamar is surely entitled to the name
of "rhe Mascot Town Of Colorado y
The enterprising men who have
Bent County register., 1887-04-02
Physician and Surgeon,
ONCE over City Drug Store. North side.
LAMAR, COLORADO.

made her what she is are deserving
of unlimited success.
Business men were all too busy
filing orders for the southern trade
to talk to stray newspaper men, al
though we were treated with
courtesy by all whom we visited.
LaElar's hotel accommodations are
about like ours-sadiy in need of
additions and Improvement. We
were informed, however, that other
buildings for hotel purposes were
under course of construction, and
that in short time suitable accom-
modations would be afforded to the
most fastidious.
The new bridge across the Ar
kansas at this place is fast APPROACH
ing completion under the efficient
superintendent of County Surveyor
Ho.mberg, who is constantly on the
ground.
Lamar people express the kindliest
feeling toward Las Animas, and If
our surmises are correct few
months will find some of them doing
business in our midst. You are
welcome, gentlemen, we have room
| for about 10000 entetprising men
and offer superior inducements to
the right parties.-[Las AniInas
Democrat.